"Ahh! Let go of my cheeks, Grandpa Huang!" Mu Yan shouted as she repeatedly punched Tang Huang's hand, but her punches were just like mosquito bites to him. "Ahh! Big Brother! Please take this evil grandpa away from me!"
"Hahaha!" Tang Xiao laughed when Mu Yan called his grandfather like that. "All right, stop it, old man."
"Humph! Evil grandpa! I hate you!" Mu Yan shouted as she ran away after Tang Huang let go of her.
The two men sat next to each other on a long chair, but Tang Huang looked at his grandson guiltily, and he found it difficult to find the right words to speak to him. "Xiao'er, I—"
"You don't need to feel guilty toward us, you know?" Tang Xiao said to Tang Huang as he shook his head. "We have never blamed you for not teaching us to be cultivators. Our parents were just ordinary people, so it's natural that they didn't want us to be involved in such a cruel world. We understood why you hadn't visited us for the last seven years, as we knew that you were eager to take revenge on them."
Tang Huang looked at his grandson in awe, and he felt like he barely knew his current character. In his opinion, Tang Xiao looked more mature than seven years ago, but he had also become quite cruel. 'Perhaps his character became like this because he was imprisoned for so long.'
Tang Xiao stood up and looked up at the night sky. "Even though I had to suffer for several years, I am grateful for my suffering, which made me less naive, and I'm more aware of the cruelty of this world. Moreover, all of those events were a blessing in disguise for us, and we've become cultivators now, so we can work together to take revenge on them from now on."
Tang Huang sighed softly at his grandson's words, but he was also relieved by the current Tang Xiao, even though he had to suffer for years to reach this point. "What are you going to do next? The Ouyang family is much stronger than you think, and I can't fight them either, so you shouldn't be rash in attacking them."
"Aunt Yuan has already told me everything, particularly regarding Long Yin. Naturally, I won't attack them openly, as doing so would be detrimental to us. Tang Xiao then turned to face his grandfather and spoke with a confident smile. "It's true that I can't fight him now, but it doesn't mean I won't be able to fight him in the future, right? Actually, Big Sis and I can destroy them easily, Old Man. It's just that we want to make their lives difficult, and I want them to pay back hundreds, if not thousands, of folds for what they have done to us in the past."
Tang Huang raised his eyebrows after hearing that, and he couldn't understand how his grandson could be so confident to destroy those families, but he was sure that Tang Xiao wasn't bragging judging by his expression.
"Hehe." Tang Xiao chuckled at his grandfather's expression, and he raised both his hands with clenched fists towards the sky. "Grandpa! I am neither a hero nor a villain; I am me. I will do everything to protect those who are closest to me, and I will avenge those who have harmed us. Even if I have to become a demon, I will do whatever it takes to achieve my goal."
However, Tantai Lingyan suddenly appeared in front of Tang Xiao, and she hugged his head tightly to her chest. "Nice words, Kid! I haven't seen you for a while, but you've become much different compared to the person you used to be."
"Damn! Let me go, Master! Your boobs are suffocating me." Tang Xiao tried to free himself from Tantai Lingyan's embrace.
"Haha." Tantai Lingyan laughed softly as she released Tang Xiao from her embrace, and she looked at him with a satisfied smile.
"Big boobs, but no brains."
Tantai Lingyan pinched both of Tang Xiao's cheeks and teased him in a flirtatious tone. "Oh? I remember that you used to like my boobs so much, and you often peeked at them when you slept with me, but now you're saying that I'm big boobs but no brains, huh?"
Tang Xiao's face flushed red upon hearing her words, but he did not deny that he had liked Tantai Lingyan's large breasts when he was kid. "I didn't expect you guys to be so strong; both of you have even reached the peak emperor realm, and I'm really nothing compared to you two."
"How did you know our cultivation? Did Yuan'er tell you about it?" Both of them asked Tang Xiao simultaneously.
Since they were his grandfather and master, and Tantai Lingyan was the person who had almost always accompanied him for many years, Tang Xiao was confident that they would never betray them. He decided to bring them into the ark, and they could help him take revenge faster if they become as strong as Long Yin. "Aunt Yuan already informed me and Big Sis about it, but I have something I want to show both of you."
"Where are you—" Tantai Lingyan had not finished asking, but Tang Xiao had already grabbed their hands, and he brought them into the ark.
Shortly after they disappeared, two women walked into the Mu House, but one of them looked towards the back building with a frown, and she wanted to run towards that place. However, her friend grabbed her hand and asked her. "What happened, Xiang? Where do you want to go? The banquet is almost starting, so we should go in now and hand over our grandfather's gifts to Grandpa Mu."
"I can feel the same qi I felt in Yao Wei's prison from that area, so Tang Xiao should be there now." Sun Xiang answered as she pointed towards the back building. "Moreover, the Tang and Mu Clans do have a good relationship, so I'm sure that it's really him."
"Hmm?" Xiao Meng followed the direction Sun Xiang was pointing, but then she pulled her best friend in. "I want to capture Tang Xiao, but we can't make a scene here. We must wait for the banquet to end before making a move on him, or our grandfathers will scold us."
Sun Xiang immediately followed Xiao Meng inside while glancing toward the back building, and she spread her senses there, but she couldn't find anyone there. 'Is that just my feeling?'
After they arrived inside, the two women immediately handed over several gifts to Mu Ling, and they then joined the other guests.
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As he explained everything to them, Tang Xiao was taking his grandpa and master towards the laboratory to meet Tang Yin and Xiao Ai, who were already waiting for them there.
Tang Xiao didn't tell them that the ark and everything in it came from the future, and he told them that his master came from other realms that were far more sophisticated than earth, as they were too old-fashioned to accept all that.
Even though Tiang Huang and Tantai Lingyan had lived for so long and were also experienced cultivators, all of his stories and all the unusual sights inside the ark still shocked them.
"So, you really don't know about your master's identity?"
"No." Tang Xiao answered Tantai Lingyan's question by shaking his head. "When I woke up, he had already disappeared from this world, so I didn't have the chance to meet him."
"No wonder you are so confident that you can destroy the Ouyang family easily." Tang Huang said that as he let out a heavy sigh. "I initially found it hard to believe that you could do all that when Yuan'er told us about your actions in the past few days, but it turns out you have so many extraordinary things in your arsenal."
Unlike him, Tantai Lingyan still found it difficult to accept Tang Xiao's actions because the people he had killed were ordinary humans. "Hey, Xiao'er, did you and Yin'er really kill those people?"
"Yes." Tang Xiao then turned to Tantai Lingyan. "I know how you feel, Master. They are my enemies, and they were the ones who killed my parents. I don't care whether they are ordinary humans or not, and I will wipe out all those families."
"But—"
"Master! If you don't want to help me deal with those families, then you can pretend that you don't know about this matter, and you don't need to prevent me from taking revenge." Tang Xiao decisively interrupted his master because he had lived with Tantai Lingyan for so long. He was familiar with her character, and he knew that she did not like him killing ordinary humans. "Blood for blood, eyes for eyes, and life for life! Their deaths are the price they have to pay for everything they have done to us in the past."
Tantai Lingyan wanted to persuade Tang Xiao, but Tang Huang stopped her after he saw the look in Tang Xiao's eyes, and he was sure that he would not change his decision regarding those people. "Xiao'er, I will support all your decisions, but you have to do everything more carefully, or else Wang Fuxi will hunt you down because you killed so many ordinary humans. If you fall into her hands, we won't be able to save you from her, and she will give you severe punishments, including crippling your cultivation."
"I know, Grandpa."
- To Be Continued -